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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by AbrahamParangi on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:11AM (#25927782)
The three body problem is sort of inverted magical realism. Everything that’s usually fake in magical realism (like the physics) is rendered with care and respect- and everything that’s usually real (the people and their interactions) is fake and dreamlike.
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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by varjag on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:54AM (#25928917)
And I mean the physics is also questionable, with stretched out protons and everything. More a Princess of Mars than Mars Trilogy.
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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by atombender on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:53PM (#25949042)
There's also the prose itself. I don't know if it's the translation or it's how the original is written, but I found Liu Cixin's simplistic elementary-school-level language highly unengaging. It really reads like juvenile fiction.

I've read that this style is typical of Chinese novels, but I can't confirm it.

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